10 quotes
The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.
The Ginger Star (1974)
Invisibility is a condition of godhead. If folk could see them, they would know the truth, and the Lords Protector would cease to be divine.
The Ginger Star (1974)
“Better to make haste slowly than not at all,” said Amnir sententiously.
The Ginger Star (1974)
The Thyrans came on, as merciless as time.
The Ginger Star (1974)
Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.
The Ginger Star (1974)
With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.
The Ginger Star (1974)
I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.
The Ginger Star (1974)
Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith.
The Ginger Star (1974)
There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.
The Ginger Star (1974)
The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.
The Ginger Star (1974)